Books
Book reviews (non-fiction literature about media, public, big tech and film).
MODERNISATION: Nigerian professor Olùfèmi Táíwò examines power relations between former colonised and colonialists. All states struggle to adapt modern institutions to their own history,…
DEMOCRACY: Community-led initiatives as a contribution to the European Green Deal?
ISRAEIL: Ami Ayalon has been at the forefront of Israel's military actions for years. As naval commander and head of its internal security service,…
CONFLICT: Christopher Blattman's long-term project explores the reasons why conflict between groups and nations erupts into war.
AFRICA: What can a book say about Boko Haram or the porous border between present-day Cameroon and present-day Chad? Or about the pre-colonial Kingdom…
AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton's fusion of liberal politics with market…
AFGHANISTAN: Zarifa Ghafari is on the BBC's list of the world's 100 most influential women. This Afghan mayor knows very well that she is…
DOCUMENTARY: In a rigorous collection of essays, The Companion offers an in-depth, global examination of central historical issues and approaches in the field of…
ENVIRONMENT: The productivity of nature as such must include other species, ecosystems, soils, the atmosphere and the ocean.